Ways to Create Calm in Your Daily Life
Most of us need some space for calm in our lives. A few simple minutes can create much needed moments of calm. You can use these skills to create calm in your busy schedule.
Go walking. Walking is perfect and you can do it well anywhere. Simply walking and taking in the view is stress reducing. It makes room for new ideas to take root. Appreciate nature. When we think of nature we think of getting out into the open air, and that's great if you can. Actually, nature is everywhere. Find a park or a small patch (小块地)of great green, or just stick your head out of the window! You have many ways to appreciate nature.
Listen to music. Many people listen to music to calm themselves down. Music actually lifts us out of ourselves. Discover what music works for you.
Do some activities. Certain activities like yoga and tai chi need quiet focus. They are good for the body, mind and spirit.
Classes are a good place to begin, but once you learn the skills, you can practice anywhere: home, school or even on the road.
Try out some of these ways and you'll soon be practicing "moments of calm".
A. But what if you are in the city?
B. Notice the animals around you.
C. They are perfect for active calming.
D. Music is a way to express the way that they are feeling.
E. It's a time to get stressful thoughts out of your head
F. With enjoyable music even work can be "music to your ears".
G. You don't have to find a mountain to sit on, or empty your mind of all thoughts for hours.
My mother is a diligent and kind woman. She is very busy from morning till night. As a teacher, she works hard. Both my brother and I love her dearly as she loves us.
My mother has been teaching math at a middle school in my hometown. She goes to work early in the morning and does not return home until in the late afternoon. She treats them with patience and teaches them well. For her excellent quality and very good teaching results, she has been elected as a model teacher several times.
Every day, when she comes back home from work, she sets about doing housework, sweeping the living room and bedrooms or cleaning the furniture, and putting everything in good order. She seems to be busy all the time. As she has been very busy working every day, she looks older than her age. But she looks as cheerful and happy as ever. Mother never buys expensive dresses for herself, but she often buys some inexpensive but high quality clothes for us. She just eats a plain meal outside when she is too busy to cook herself. She lives a busy yet simple life, without any complaints.(抱怨)
Often she says to us, "work while you work, and play while you play. That is the way to be happy. If you do not work, you will become lazy and be of no use to society". What a piece of good advice this is! This advice of hers will always serve as a guide to my behavior. My mother is great indeed, and I always feel proud of her.
A. She enjoys listening to classic music.
B. As a mother, she takes good care of us and gives us every comfort.
C. She loves her students and cares for them.
D. She never goes to expensive restaurants to enjoy meals.
E. My mother is hard-working and never wastes money.
F. I never forget it and always bear it in my mind.
G. Can you tell us something about your mother?
The famous saying “A thousand-mile ” tells us that our success depends on our everyday hard work.
Dear Jack,
My name is Li Ming, (一个来自中国的交换生) . It is the first time for me (到国外学习) . The beautiful campus (已经给……留下了好印象) me.
I am an active and outgoing person (对……感到好奇) everything around me. I have (注册) many classes, among which I like physics best. (除此之外), I like to read short stories in my spare time.
At the beginning, I (对……感到焦虑的) the study and life abroad. But with hard work, I have improved my study and made lots of friends. Therefore, I (对自己有信心) and believe (我的所有目标将会被实现) .
(期待你的回复) .
Yours，
Li Ming
The day we brought Julie home I knew that we were in quite a ride. She was more than just a 1. Though the smallest one in the house, she didn't let that 2 her from trying to show off. It made me 3 that she would walk up to the bowl of dog food and bark (吠叫) away a dog ten times her 4. She never once begged, but she wasn't afraid to ask for 5 either. Too many times I found my toes being tickled (使发痒) by her tongue until I 6 moved her up to my lap.
Julie didn't mind being petted but wouldn't 7 being carried around like a doll. The kids soon learned just how to 8 her: with both love and respect. Julie loved a good dog treat and a 9 touch. When it came to haircuts and baths, however, she wasn't afraid to show her 10 about them with a gentle growl (怒吼声).
Julie lived on and on while some of my younger dogs had 11 over the years, but her 12 slowly got worse and worse. She lost weight and had trouble 13. She became both blind and deaf and we had to 14 her carefully when we were walking her. Sometimes she slept so 15 that I was afraid that she had finally passed away. Yet, she always 16 her head when I gently touched her old body. That was until last night.
I buried Julie in the woods behind my home with 17 eyes and a hurting heart. I asked myself why I had taken so many dogs into my 18 over the years when the 19 of losing them was so great. As I was walking home remembering Julie, I came to 20 the answer: the love was always far greater than the pain.
Ahead of this year's London Book Fair in March, media reported a rise in interest in translated works among British readers. For translator Anna Holmwood, this signals the (arrive) of a new era.
"This is a big moment for Chinese fiction abroad," says Holmwood, has translated Chinese literature for almost a decade.
"Languages in growing demand include Chinese and Arabic." according to the Nielsen report. It found that, against the commonly (see) "not more than 3 percent rule" of translated (literature) presence in the English-language book markets, the number for 2018 was 5. 63 percent in Britain the total annual sales was worth $27. 1 million.
Charlotte Collins, translator and co-chair of the British Translators Association, says: "As we can see, this proportion (比率) (double) in recent years… This is really exciting news. "
The Guardian quotes (引用) Fiammetta Rocco, administrator of the Man Booker International Prize, " (read) fiction is one of the (good) ways of putting ourselves other people's shoes. The rise in sales of translated fiction (show) how hungry British readers are for terrific writing from other countries."
